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Shudderwock Card Review

It looks like the early leaks have turned out to be true. I was honestly hoping that it will be the case because of this card. Shaman’s power level is very low right now, but this is absolutely insane. There are LOTS of strong Battlecries, and while targets are random just like in case of Tess Greymane, there are lots of Battlecries that are always good.

In Wild, this could obviously be broken with the whole Jade mechanic. Jade Claws, Jade Spirit and such are Battlecries, so you will get a HUGE board after playing this, a board that your opponent just has to answer or he dies.

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How will the battlecries from Omega cards work for Shudderwock?
Will Shudderwock execute the battlecries from these cards even if they weren’t executed when the omega card itself was played?
How does for example the battlecry from Mind Control Tech work?

Just played game against shaman battle cry…can definitely say that some battlecry cards need nerfed in relation to this card. Got to a point where he had fatigued and played it then I got stuck in an endless loop of about 40 cards that ended up with him having another 2-3 shudderwocks in hand EVERY TURN. With that life steal bug card going off it is legit impossible to win.

This might be a dumb question but how does this card work with something like totem cruncher(4 mana 2/3 taunt, destroy your totems GAIN +2/+2 for each destroyed). Would it give the stats to a random minion or does it act as if shudderwock cast this battlecry for himself

Yes, yes it can. Shudderwock has a Battlecry that does things, therefor it would be added to the pool of Battlecries triggered. Like Trump said, adding Grumble’s Battlecry into the pool with 2 Shudderwoks + Murmuring Elemental would be basically an OTK.

My thoughts exactly… spend basically all my dust to get this card, but hey… I’ll get to have one REALLY fun season, then disenchant it in a month. Why miss out on all the fun when this card is basically free to craft?

so we saw from the reveal stream that this card be very strong, and that it works with Hero cards.

The Hagatha synergy is terrible lol, but THRALL!

Instead of all that shuffle minions into your deck crap play cards that summon dudes. This is already good in a Shaman Evolve Shell

Then you have a big end game play where you play the Work it summons a bunch of trash and evolves twice for a NZoth-ish effect. Prolly put some card dray battlecries in there too. For a NZoth/Ultimate Infestation effect.

This card i very good if you get the effect. This is really good with stuff like hagatha. Dealing 3 damage to all minions when you play this is insane. One thing i thought about is what if you played this ones then bounce it. When you play it again does this take this cards effects also? Like it does this cards battlecry twice?

Funnily Tinkmaster Overspark (antisynergy with Sauronite) might see play with this because it might be hard to find a turn to play this without, Basically your opponent will have a 1/1 or 5/5 after this will be dropped and Ezpz, you got the game. But tinkmaster is decent in Void Lord, resurrect meta anyways.

C’thun deck obviously. Can be played before or after C’thun, better before obviously.

Looking for someone to clarify, if you were to play this on an empty board and you had already played Zola, would the Zola battlecry be able to hit it self, it seems that it would depend on if Shudderwock is the one supposedly casting the battlecry.

This could be a rather decent late game option in an Elemental Shaman deck seeing as pretty much every elemental has a efficent, spell-like battlecry, and it will copy Hagatha’s battlecry too. All you’d need to do is throw down an elemental the turn before you drop this.

This is better than Tess Greymane for sure.

Thank god Shaman can’t add this card back to the hand in the same turn they play it.

We need to find a way to make shutterwock tribal. Where you shutters, then shutterwock, followed by something like a shutterwock.
It looks like some people actually have, but we need more!
Shutterwock meta!

Turn 4-7: Play Saronite and Nightblade and/or Lifedrinker (just saw this card and added it here)
Turn 6-8: Play Grumble (has to be after Saronite)
Turn 9+: Play Shudderwock: Creates a copy of itself, deals 3 damage face and then bumps copy back to hand (costs 1 mana).
Turn 10: Play 10x 1-mana Shudderwock for 30 damage face.

Plenty of good battlecry cards to tech :
Chief Inspector (even though Ice Block isn’t standard anymore)
Priestess of Elune, Darkscale Healer, Fungal Enchanter, etc… if you need a bit more survival
Fill the rest of the deck with good control cards and draw.

The order is random though. Confirmed by Ben on the stream. Still the possibility is high you’ll bounce one back, maybe even 2. Combo Shaman incomming, but still a lot of setup required with relatively bad cards.

All I can say is you play as many “3 damage to face” cards and both Saronite, so you get 66% chance (instead of 50%) to get a saronite effect before grumble (and deal 6, 9, or 12 damage instead of 3). You can also add Zola the Gorgon for safety 9-mana backup (on empty board) and/or the Baleful Banker.

Finally nightblades and elune priestess(i disenchanted her) will be usefull xD would be very nice use chain gang and frozen effect cards,it clear the board,it awakens the darkness or maybe…JUST CTHUN THAT SHIT!!!!

This card is insane and an autoinclude in Evolve Shaman. Imagine the cards such as “Big time racketeer” “Doppleganster” and “Saronite Chain Gang” (I don’t know if it summons a 6/6 or original minion though) It will work with “Thrall, Deathseer”. If you go second you can even save the coin and coin and play “Murmuring Elemental” toghether with it. Great potential. Just to find out if it’s strong enough to carry Evolve Shaman.

Even if this doesn’t find a place in standard this should be an auto include in any jade shaman deck. This is just simply too good of a card for a jade deck. You could easily fill your board with 4 or 5 jades, each bigger than the last.

My favorite card in the entire set, so many possibilities, infinite situations, as a Shaman main I love this damn card and the first deck I’m going to make is a battlecry Shaman with both Hero Cards and this sexy legendary. 5/5.

This is really good. Remember, the death knight is a battle cry. You can play cards that makes minions such as saronite chain gang and instantly double evolve them. Including the easy ways to make this a draw spell makes this see very strong.

How does this work with doppelgangster’s battlecry? Will it summon two copies of itself, or will it summon two doppelgangsters? If it summons two copies of itself, there could possibly be an OTK with a charge giving minion such as one of the hogriders and two doppelgangsters.

Toast has been spending a lot of farewell time on his streams for his one true love yogg saron. But I worry- how long until that piece of charred bread in sunglasses curbs the cunning god for the shudderwock?

Definitely an interesting legendary. Shame that Jades are rotating out – excuse, shame that SHAMAN Jades are rotating out (Druid’s can be deleted from the game for all I care). In Wild you can refill your board with super strong green men (some of them even with Taunt to protect you). In Standard… well, I don’t know how powerful UNTARGETED Battlecries are for Shaman. Like, I wouldn’t run Fire Elemental with this guy. Nor Hagatha (kill your own stuff) or Kalimos (the Elemental Invocation will be chosen randomly). I don’t see this legendary as powerful right now, but with the upcoming 5 expansions Shaman can get good battlecries and make this worth it. So 2.5/5 stars now, possibly 4.5/5 stars in the future.

With Kalimos you usually always choose 3 damage AOE. Damage to oposing hero or restoring health are not bad, but normally lackluster. Filling board with 1/1s is not what you want in the end game, and it can happen to you… Nope, don’t like it.

OK, so I’ve been saying Brode and Day[9]’s stream on Twitch. I had never thought Saronite Chain Gang would double this minion and not invoke another Chain Gang. So with that Combo in mind, this already has 4/5 stars in Standard for me, and as I said, it can get broken and go to 4.5 or even 5 stars.